China News

News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty

Friday, December 19, 2003

Most Chinese believe wife-beating is reasonable. China Daily Dec 19 2003 11:31AM ET [Moreover - China news]
2:06:00 PM

China farmers rent Kazak land. Up to 3,000 Chinese farmers are to head west to start working the land in neighbouring Kazakhstan. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
2:05:19 PM

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EU votes to continue arms embargo against China. Citing China's record in human rights, threats aginst Taiwan and the mistreatment of AIDS victims, the EU Parliament dismissed the urgings of France and Germany to lift the EU's 14-year -old arms embargo against China. voting to keep the embargo... [The Peking Duck]
1:58:57 PM

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Chinese Christians Continue to Face Persecution for Their Faith (CNS)

1:49:50 PM

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China: Tenant Rights Advocate Arbitrarily Jailed
Lawyer Accused of "Circulating Secrets" to Rights Group (HRW)

A Shanghai court's conviction of a tenant rights advocate shows the arbitrary nature of the justice system in China, Human Rights Watch said today.

1:39:56 PM

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